- Méthode Ancestrale sparkling cider
- 750ml
- 6.8%
- Dry
A rich golden, fully sweet Devon cider
Naturally Sweet Keeved Cider from Devon
Each bottle of this hand made limited edition cider is individually numbered
Long ago in a cider company far far away… Well not so far away really.
Back in the 1980’s we owned Inch’s Cider in Winkleigh which made a very popular cider called “harvest scrumpy” on a visit to the renowned Olde Cider Bar in Newton Abbot we discovered that the locals called Harvest Scrumpy “White Lightning” And so a cider legend was born. White Lightning became hugely popular across the country as part of the first cider boom. Regrettably changes in cider duty brought the boom to an end in favour of flavoured alcopops. A whole generation of cider companies closed Inch’s, Merrydown, Gaymers, and Taunton cider amongst them. Production of White Lightning moved to hereford and it became a cheap nasty product finally put out of its misery in the noughties. We decided to revive the original high quality cider with a new name. We hope you like itA premium White cider, made in Devon
From blossom to bottle, this is a truly homegrown, authentic farmhouse cider. Our own delightful Devon longhouse nestles in the middle of fifty acres of traditional cider orchards and from this rural idyl, we craft a cidermaker's cider that would grace the finest tables. Crisp, ripe apple sweetness is cut with palette cleaning acidity and lingering complex tannins. A cider true to its roots in Devonshire cider making traditions.
Each bottle of this hand made limited edition cider is individually numbered
Although not exclusive to Devon, the ancient longhouse has evolved in the county into the more elaborate building that is now so much part of today’s Devon landscape. Some examples are still working farms but many have now become normal homes, hotels or bed and breakfast establishments.
The early longhouses were simple, one storied affairs that offered accommodation for both the farmer and his livestock.
In its basic form the longhouse was of two rooms divided by a cross passage. To one side of the passage, ‘above’ was the hall where there was a fire and where the people lived. On the other side of the passage, ‘below’ were the cattle in their shippon, heads to the outside walls and a dung channel down the middle with a drain hole at the lower end. Longhouses were more often than not built lengthwise down a gentle slope to aid drainage and this helps to explain the use of the words ‘above’ and ‘below’ the passage. Cattle and men shared the same entrance into the passage with a wall or screen on the upper side through which a door entered into the hall. On the lower side the entrance to the shippon was often open.
This is a truly homegrown, authentic farmhouse cider
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